Dream - Retired (out-of-session compounding moved to GC)

Status: RETIRED (soc-2rtm0). The in-tree out-of-session compounding engine and its whole CLI surface (the former always-on lane — now Gas City) were removed, along with the always-on background process that carried it. AgentOps no longer ships the out-of-session orchestration substrate — scheduled, between-session knowledge compounding now runs via GC (Gas City). This skill remains only as a pointer; it no longer drives an in-repo command.

Cross-vendor analog: Anthropic Managed Agents Dreaming (research preview, May 2026) — scheduled session review, pattern extraction, memory curation between runs. AgentOps now delegates that lane to GC rather than owning it.

What moved

The "dream cycle" (bounded INGEST -> REDUCE -> MEASURE knowledge compounding between sessions) is no longer an ao command. Drive it through GC's out-of-session scheduling surfaces instead. Do not invent a replacement ao workflow.

What stays in AgentOps

The KEEP primitives the dream cycle was built on are unchanged and remain on-demand:

• /harvest — promote .agents/ knowledge across rigs
• /forge — mine transcripts into learnings
• /compile — Mine → Grow → Defrag → Lint the wiki corpus
• /inject — JIT decay-ranked context assembly
• /evolve — daytime, operator-driven code compounding via /rpi

The nightly-CI dream-cycle proof job in .github/workflows/nightly.yml (harvest -> forge -> close-loop -> defrag -> metrics health) still runs against the checked-in corpus; it is built on those KEEP primitives, not on the retired CLI engine.

Delineation vs /evolve

/evolve owns the daytime code-compounding layer (operator-driven, via /rpi). The knowledge-compounding layer that /dream used to own now lives outside AgentOps (GC). Both still share the fitness-measurement substrate via corpus.Compute / ao goals measure.

Reference Documents

• references/dream.feature — Historical executable spec for the retired bounded bedtime loop (harvest→forge→close-loop→defrag), kept for provenance (soc-qk4b)
• How It Works
• CLI Reference

See Also

• /harvest, /forge, /compile, /inject - the KEEP knowledge primitives
• /evolve - daytime code-compounding loop
• /handoff - capture explicit session closeout